English Dictionary: non-trivial | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
nontrivial adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial"). The preferred emphatic form is `decidedly nontrivial'. See {trivial}, {uninteresting}, {interesting}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
nontrivial Requiring real thought or significant computing power. Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial"). The preferred emphatic form is "decidedly nontrivial". See {uninteresting}, {interesting}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-21) |